Matthew 26:11
(seeing ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always:) for in pouring this ointment on my body,
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12she has embalmed me for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20for where two or three are assembled together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42for I was famishing, and ye gave me nothing to eat; I was a-thirst, and ye gave me no drink;
Mark 14:7She has done a kind office to me. For ye have the poor always with you, and may do them good, whenever ye will; but me ye have not always.
John 13:33Little children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. Ye will wish for me, and as I said to the Jews, "Whither I go ye cannot come", so I now tell you.
John 16:5But now I am going away to Him that sent me, and yet none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going? but because I have said these things to you,
John 17:11And as I am to be no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to Thee, Holy Father, keep by thy name those whom Thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:7-14
Christ Anointed at Bethany. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11 For ye have… Read the whole commentary →